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Diary of a bad year

Senor C," an aging author who has been asked by his German publisher to write his thoughts on the state of the world, addresses a wide range of subjects; when he hires a beautiful young woman to type his manuscript, the relationship that develops has a profound effect on both of them.

Main Author: Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
Format: Books Print Book
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
Subjects:
Older authors > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
Summary: Senor C," an aging author who has been asked by his German publisher to write his thoughts on the state of the world, addresses a wide range of subjects; when he hires a beautiful young woman to type his manuscript, the relationship that develops has a profound effect on both of them.
Physical Description: 231 p.
ISBN: 9780143114482
0143114484
Author Notes: J.M. Coetzee's full name is John Michael Coetzee. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940, Coetzee is a writer and critic who uses the political situation in his homeland as a backdrop for many of his novels. Coetzee published his first work of fiction, Dusklands, in 1974.

Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an unhappy time in Coetzee's childhood when his family moved from Cape Town to the more remote and unenlightened city of Worcester. Other Coetzee novels are In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians. Coetzee's critical works include White Writing and Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship.

Coetzee is a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize and in 2003, he won the Nobel Literature Award.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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